Table-tennis net.



, n'o'. 699,980. I Pa tenced M a'y l3, 1902.;

J. SALMON. TABLE TENNIS NET.

(Application filed Feb. 12, 1962. (No Model.) v

WITNESSES INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SALMON, on LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.

TABLE-'ITENNIS NET.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 699,980, dated May 13, 1902. Application filed February 12 1902. Serial No. 93,694. (No model.)

' ments in Table-Tennis Nets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object a cheap and simple form of table-tennis net which will pack up into a small compass and when in use adjusted to any size of table and which will also have the advantage of being resilient and yet capable of standing upright on the table without binding-screws, clips, or other like devices. Flexible nets have hitherto required clips or binding devices to hold them upright, and these are liable to dent the table or be otherwise inconvenient. The present invention avoids this defect.

The accompanying drawing is aperspective view of a table-tennis net constructed in accordance with my invention.

Referring to the figure, A is a woven or knotted network made of twine or cord or like material, so as to be flexible,;and I support elasticity of the turned-up ends is adapted to keep the 'network'A taut. The feet 0 are simply pieces of metal coiled around the horiz'ontal part b and projecting on opposite sides, with pieces of rubber D fixed to the 0nd of the feet, which make the nets still more rigid and avoid injury to a polished surface. These feet can be made to raise the net sufficiently to allow the balls to roll underneath from either without being gripped on the table, and yet the cordportion of the net provides the necessary resilience or flexibility, which enables it to give should a ball strike its upper edge, and deliver'the ball into the opposite court,

while in no way injuring or destroying the ball.

I'declare that what I claim is- A table-tennis net, having the combination of a horizontal metallic bar bent upward at the ends to form posts, feet secured to said horizontal bar,- and a flexible network secured at each end to and kept taut by said uprights, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name,- this 1st day of February, 1902,, in

the presence of two subscribing witnesses. JOHN SALMON.-

Witnesses:

G. O. DYMOND, JOHN MCLACHLAN. 

